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The 52nd Telluride Film Festival is now in the books. Margot Robbie, Ryan Coogler, Oprah Winfrey, David Oyelowo, Rian Johnson, Janet Yang, Kathy Kennedy and Frank Marshall were among those who came just to watch movies. Screenings were introduced with a group meditation (Chloé Zhao), a song (Jesse Plemons) and a wave (man of few words Bruce Springsteen). Adam Sandler and Emma Stone posed for photos in the streets with ecstatic local schoolkids. And the Oscar race came into clearer focus.

Below, you can read my biggest awards-related takeaways from the fest.

Four high-profile films that already have U.S. distribution had their world premieres in Telluride: Ballad of a Small Player (Netflix), Bugonia (Focus), Hamnet (Focus) and Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (20th Century). How did they go over?

Focus has plenty of cause for celebration, as both Bugonia and Hamnet played like gangbusters and look almost certain to...

The Oscar race has one established frontrunner, which is often not the ideal place to be. As it happens, “Sinners” (Warner Bros.) auteur Ryan Coogler was checking out the competition at Telluride this Labor Day weekend, which unveiled a healthy slate of Oscar contenders.

Best Picture Contenders

One movie emerged that could challenge “Sinners” in multiple categories: Oscar-winner Chloé Zhao (“Nomadland”) delivered heart-wrenching family drama “Hamnet” (Focus), featuring two powerhouse lead performances from Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley as William and Agnes Shakespeare. Based on Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 bestseller, the film tracks their early romance and marriage and the birth of three children, two girls and a boy, Hamnet. Their lives are rocked by grief when they lose Hamnet to the plague, and Shakespeare buries himself in writing the tragedy “Hamlet.”

The directors will support Zhao’s meticulous period craftsmanship and scriptwriting with O’Farrell, along with the tech categories Cinematography,...

Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone’s doom-laden black comedy-thriller Bugonia stupefied and delighted the Venice Film Festival on Thursday night, drawing a rousing six-minute standing ovation after its world premiere inside the Italian water city’s Sala Grande cinema. From their perch on the theater’s balcony, Lanthimos, Stone and co-stars Jessie Plemons and Aidan Delbis joined hands and bowed to the crowd in unison as the lengthy applause wound down. Throughout the film’s two-hour runtime, the Venice premiere crowd alternated between stunned silence and bouts of laughter in reaction to the story’s “explosive violence, bursts of slapstick physical comedy and satirical jabs,” as The Hollywood Reporter’s chief critic summed up the film’s “weird twists” in a rave review.

Bugonia finds Stone starring alongside another Lanthimos collaborator in Plemons and fellow cast members Aidan Delbis, Stavros Halkias and Alicia Silverstone. A remake of Korean director Jang Joon Hwan...

Yorgos Lanthimos’ new feature Bugonia is launching at the Venice Film Festival on Thursday night and critics are starting to have their say on the offbeat sci-fi black comedy starring Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons.

Bugonia marks a reunion for the director and Stone after the four-time Oscar-winning Poor Things. In their latest collaboration – an English-language remake of South Korean filmmaker Jang Joon-hwan’s Save the Green Planet! – Stone plays a high-powered CEO of a major company kidnapped by two conspiracists who are convinced the CEO is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth.

The reactions have been largely positive, with the actors in particular coming in for high praise.

Deadline’s Pete Hammond called the film a “wild ride” and a return to form for the Greek auteur: “Bugonia is a dizzying, batsh*t-crazy story that ranks right up there with the filmmaker’s best films: Poor Things,...

At the Telluride Film Festival, you never know who is going to stroll past you on the street, sit across from you on a gondola or catch a movie next to you in a cinema. This year, it might just be George Clooney, Werner Herzog, Jodie Foster, Jeremy Allen White, Wagner Moura, Claire Foy, Adam Sandler, Colin Farrell, Zoey Deutch, Dustin Hoffman, Riz Ahmed or one of the Skarsgards, father Stellan or son Alexander. They all have films in the lineup — which was announced by the fest on Thursday morning, includes over 60 features and shorts from more than 30 countries, and appears in full at the bottom of this post — and are expected to be in the Rockies over Labor Day weekend, along with subjects of documentaries that will be playing at the fest including David Remnick and E. Jean Carroll.

The highest-profile titles set to have their world premiere at...

Margot Robbie’s Mother Once Warned Her To Be Cautious About Partying With Will Smith(Photo Credit –Instagram)

Margot Robbie and Will Smith‘s photobooth pictures made everyone believe the duo might be dating. Will was still married to Jada Pinkett Smith, and the Barbie star was reportedly working profusely to make it big in Hollywood. We all know how gossip and rumors spread like wildfire, and it was the same for Margot and Will. The actress’ mother once got concerned about her image and shared a piece of advice with her daughter. Scroll below for more.

Margot Robbie’s Mother Warned Her Amidst Will Smith Affair Rumors

Margot and...

Kevin Costner and Jake Gyllenhaal have signed on to star in Honeymoon with Harry, a dramedy for Amazon MGM Studios based on the book by Bart Baker, the studio announced on Monday.

The film follows a man (Gyllenhaal) as he decides to go on a honeymoon with his would-be father-in-law (Costner) after his fiancée dies two days before their wedding. Glenn Ficarra and John Requa will direct the film from a script by Dan Fogelman, with whom they’ve worked on shows like Paradise and This Is Us, as well as the film Crazy, Stupid, Love.

Producers include Fogelman, Mike Karz via Gulfstream Pictures, and Jennifer Salke via her newly launched Sullivan Street Productions banner. The project marks the latter’s first project with Amazon MGM since stepping down as head of the studio earlier this year and her producing debut. Salke reunites with Fogelman here after championing his hit...

Netflix series ‘In The Mud’ (Originally titled: ‘En El Barro’) is a Spanish-language prison drama that chronicles the journey of a group of female prison inmates and how they bond with each other while navigating deadly situations. The show, which is a spin-off of the 2016 series’ El Marginal,’ primarily focuses on Glady Guerra (Ana Garibaldi), who ends up in prison after a failed kidnapping attempt. Her life changes when she meets a group of women in a dangerous situation that bonds her with them forever. As they enter the ‘Le Quebrada’ prison, they must find a way to stick together to fight the system and the different tribes that dominate the jailhouse. However, they soon realize how difficult it will be to survive in a place where trust is rare.

The terrifying environment puts them in a defensive position, and they are always on their toes as they come face-to-face...

Variety has reported that our friends at Frontières are teaming up with the European Film Market, held during Berlinale Film Festival every February, to launch a new program for 2026. It will be called EFM Frontières Focus and it bring attention to five projects that are either works in progress or already in production. The intent is to partner these projects with sales agents, distributors and festival programmers or secure completion finance. We suggest filmmakers bookmark the Frontières website for future announcements about this and all of their year-round programming. Berlin’s European Film Market and Frontières, the international genre co-production market organized by Canada’s Fantasia Film Festival, are teaming to stage a EFM Frontières Focus, a showcase of five genre titles to held...

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The set of Avengers: Doomsday is buzzing with familiar faces as production nears its final stages. Stars like Pedro Pascal (Mr. Fantastic) are already wrapping their roles. Meanwhile, returning Marvel veteran James Marsden is soaking in the nostalgia as he reprises his role as Cyclops for the first time in two decades.

Marsden last suited up as the leader of the X-Men in the early 2000s, and he’s clearly enjoying stepping back into the visor. Over the years, the actor has played a wide range of roles, from romantic comedies to thrillers like Focus. Still, Cyclops holds a special place in his heart.

The Greatest Illusion, the new feature from The Remarkable Life of Ibelin director Benjamin Ree, is among 21 feature projects selected for the Nordic Co-Production and Finance Market.

The Market is part of New Nordic Films (August 19-22), the industry strand of Haugesund’s Norwegian International Film Festival (August 16-22).

Scroll down for the New Nordic Films selection

Documentary The Greatest Illusion will explore the life of acclaimed illusionist Alexx Alexxander and his siblings, through archival footage and family videos. Produced by Ingvil Giske for Medieoperatorene with backers including the Norwegian Film Institute, the Norwegian-language title is aiming for a premiere...

Exclusive: The genre maestros at BoulderLight Pictures (Barbarian) and Divide/Conquer (Heart Eyes) are teaming on Amityville, a radical new spin on the famed haunted house story for a new generation, sources tell Deadline.

Joseph and Vanessa Winter, the married writer-director duo behind the excellent SXSW found footage horror movie Deadstream, are set to direct from their own script. Plot details are under wraps. But Raphael Margules & J.D. Lifshitz will produce for BoulderLight, alongside Adam Hendricks & Greg Gilreath for Divide/Conquer.

Given that BoulderLight has been under a first-look deal with New Line since 2023, that will be the filmmakers’ first stop with the material, though it’s not yet been exposed to studios. Producers are looking to fast-track the film, with Q4 2025 being targeted for production.

While you’re probably familiar with the Amityville Horror film franchise, going back to the the late ’70s, and 1977’s instant bestseller of a book from Jay Anson,...

As we near the half year point of 2025 for the domestic box office, which is currently running at $3.7 billion (+23% over 2024) for Jan. 1-June 15 frame, Disney Studios is leading all majors with $1.1 billion.

That’s not a surprise with a string of mass-appealing movies, i.e. Lilo & Stitch ($371.7M) and Marvel Studios’ Captain America: Brave New World ($200.5M). Even the ones that didn’t work to the top of their potential are providing a lot of cushion, read Marvel’s Thunderbolts* ($188.9M) and Snow White ($87.2M).

But the big pom pom worth waving is for Warner Bros. which stands at $906.9M through yesterday from eight titles. With F1, James Gunn’s Superman and Weapons on deck in the next month and half, the Burbank, CA lot is destined for $1 billion-plus at the domestic box office before Labor Day. For all the cry-cry about how the pressure is on the motion picture...

“Baptism,” directed by Oscar-nominated Hugo Covarrubias, “Carmín,” from Mexican mural and animation artists Los Calladitos and Brazil’s “Pipa and Snail,” an ode to imagination will all be highlighted at this year’s La Liga Focus, Annecy-mifa’s popular Latin American spotlight.

Selecting many of the most exciting and highest-quality titles from Latin America, the Focus will underscore the breadth and vibrancy of the region’s animation output, plus current artistic and market trends.

Unspooling Thursday at the Imperial Palace, home to Annecy’s MIFA market, La Liga yokes the energies of MIFA, Ventana Sur’s Animation!, May’s Quirino Awards in Canary Island Tenerife and September’s Pixelatl, Mexico’s major animation fest.

“Baptism” marks the feature film debut of Chile’s Covarrubias whose scored an Academy Award-nomination for best animated short in 2022 for “Beast,” winning a Quirino Award as well. The stop-motion feature explores the same sense of...

Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (Kviff) is expanding its Industry Days programme, which runs from July 6-9, with a greater focus on Central European film co-production and new events focused on series development.

The previous Works in Progress pitches will be replaced by a Cee-focused Kviff Central Stage showcase, a new initiative in cooperation with the national film institutes of eight Central European countries.

Thirteen fiction films by established filmmakers from these countries that are in late stages of development, in production or post-production will be showcased on July 8. The projects will be revealed later in June.

The Midpoint Institute...

Canada continues to be a powerhouse in the world of animation, with its filmmakers consistently pushing the boundaries of storytelling and visual artistry. At the 2025 Annecy International Animation Film Festival, several Canadian talents are showcasing their latest works, reflecting the country’s diverse and innovative animation scene.

Below, we profile 12 of the most exciting animation talents working in Canada today. We stress that this is not necessarily a list of Canadian talents, but rather of artists who ply their trade in Canada, one of the most welcoming industries to foreigners in the world.

Alex Boya

Alex Boya is a Bulgarian-born, Montreal-based animator renowned for his surreal, hand-drawn storytelling. A graduate of Concordia University’s Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, Boya gained early recognition with Nfb shorts like “Focus” (2014) and “Turbine” (2018). His latest work, “Bread Will Walk,” is an experimental short that premiered at Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight and is now set to compete at Annecy.

Disney’s “Lilo & Stitch” will take the No. 1 spot at the box office for a third weekend, earning $32.5 million and fending off Lionsgate’s “Ballerina,” which is underperforming with a $25 million start.

“Lilo & Stitch” is continuing its push to leg out to the $1 billion mark, currently standing at $335.8 million domestic and $772 million worldwide. Its legs will be challenged next weekend by the arrival of another remake: Universal/DreamWorks’ “How to Train Your Dragon.”

“Ballerina,” a “John Wick” spinoff starring Ana De Armas, is opening below projections of a $30 million start, with its $25 million opening roughly a third of the $73.8 million opening of “John Wick: Chapter 4” in 2023.

While Lionsgate says they are in line to turn a profit on the film thanks to foreign presales that allowed it to recoup a substantial portion of the film’s $80-90 million budget, “Ballerina” risks being squeezed out by the summer competition despite positive audience reception,...

A new month brings new movies to Netflix. Many of these are older gems, such as the six Alfred Hitchcock films that dropped on June 1, but that doesn't mean they are all good. You might like a movie that many do not.

Such is the case with the three films that follow. They aren't very good. If you don't believe us, just check their Rotten Tomatoes scores. Neither critics nor general audiences were huge fans.

We are just trying to warn you so you don't run across a good idea for a flick that truly only wastes your time. You only have so much every day, so move on from these and find some films that are worthy of your viewing.

These three movies new to Netflix should be avoidedThe Devil's Own (1997)

This movie, unfortunately, came at a time when neither Harrison Ford nor Brad Pitt were at the top of their immense games.

Focus Features’ limited launch of Wes Anderson’s espionage comedy “The Phoenician Scheme” generated $570,000 from six venues in New York and Los Angeles across the May 30-June 1 frame, translating to a $95,000 per-theater average—the strongest specialty debut of 2025 and the biggest since “Barbenheimer” year. The figure edges past A24’s previous leader “Friendship,” which opened to $445,000 on half as many screens earlier this spring.

Focus acquired worldwide rights in February and is partnering again with Indian Paintbrush after “Asteroid City” and “Moonrise Kingdom,” continuing a relationship that has delivered steady arthouse returns for the studio. Shot at Germany’s Babelsberg Studios with €10.4 million backing from the federal film fund, the production reunites Anderson with cinematographer Bruno Delbonnel and composer Alexandre Desplat.

“The Phoenician Scheme” premiered in competition at Cannes on May 18, where it drew a four-minute standing ovation before heading to New York for a star-studded domestic premiere attended by Scarlett Johansson,...

The single-minded drive of Wes Anderson’s latest protagonist, Zsa-zsa Korda (Benicio del Toro), will be familiar to fans of the director, although “The Phoenician Scheme” robber baron’s ambitions outstrip even those of explorer Steve Zissou and the wily Fantastic Mr. Fox.

Zsa Zsa’s quest to complete the Korda Land and Sea Phoenician Infrastructure Scheme has meant putting his fortune and life at risk, leading him to the unexpected move of making his estranged daughter Liesl (Mia Threapleton) his successor. Entrusting the 20-year-old would-be nun, who doesn’t hold her father nor business in high regard, starts as a strategic decision, but over the course of the film (and numerous near-death experiences), Zsa Zsa’s business ambitions morph into wanting to become a father.

While on the Filmmaker Toolkit podcast, Anderson acknowledged that the father-daughter theme taking center stage likely stemmed, in part, from the director now having his own daughter,...

We are fast approaching the middle of the year and have already witnessed some of the best movies and TV shows on everyone’s favorite streaming platform, Netflix. However, this was only the start and as summer 2025 kicks off, Netflix is rolling out a vibrant lineup of new movies, TV shows, originals, and documentaries to keep viewers entertained.

With June just days away, the month will bring several enticing new entries and highly anticipated seasons and movies, including Ginny & Georgia: Season 3 and The Ultimatum: Queer Love: Season 2. Fresh films such as Cheers to Life and documentaries like Cocaine Air: Smugglers at 30,000 Ft. add global flair.

However, some classics, including Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight trilogy or the classic Matthew McFadyen starrer Pride & Prejudice, will depart the platform. So here is a comprehensive guide that dives into everything arriving, premiering, and leaving Netflix in June 2025, ensuring you don’t...

Starz has announced the movie and TV titles that will be available on the service in June. The Starz June 2025 schedule includes World Outlander Day, the premiere of Bmf season four, and a slate of movies to celebrate Pride and Black Music Appreciation Month.

New movies added in the month of June include the action-thriller Dirty Angels, The Exorcist: Believer, and The Holdovers, featuring an Oscar-winning performance by Da’Vine Joy Randolph. Starz will also exclusively unveil the captivating, untold story of photographer Bette Marshall and 18-year-old Whitney Houston in Whitney Houston in Focus, narrated by six-time Tony Award-winning actress and singer Audra McDonald.

Bmf Season 4

To celebrate World Outlander Day on June 1, Starz will release Outlander and Blood of my Blood: The Gathering on its YouTube channel and the Starz app. The Gathering unites cast members from both series for the first time to celebrate the Outlander journey, welcome in the new generation of Frasers,...

As with every month on Netflix, your favorite streamer is bringing a lot of new goodies on June 1. The total number of 29 might not seem as much as the last few months, but then fewer things are leaving at the end of May. There’s less to give because there is less to take away.

And while we will get into what will be streaming beginning next week, we can tease a bit deeper into June as well. On June 5, the third season of Ginny & Georgia drops. Fubar Season 2 will be released on June 12. The Waterfront appears on June 19. Squid Game Season 3 starts on June 27.

In other words, there is going to be good stuff delivered throughout the month, but we have to wait a little longer than normal to view them.

What is coming to Netflix on the first day of June 2025?

Perhaps the best thing about the...

Neon CEO Tom Quinn took no chances this year en route to winning the company’s sixth Cannes Palme d’Or in a row, for Iranian dissident Jafar Panahi’s “It Was Just an Accident.” He acquired the film just two days before Saturday’s award ceremony. Neon also collected the festival Jury Prize for “Sirât” (shared with Mubi’s recent buy “Sound of Falling”), and two awards for Brazil’s “The Secret Agent” — Best Director (Kleber Mendonça Filho) and Actor (Wagner Moura ).

Neon came out ahead on the acquisitions derby, as Mubi’s starry $23-million pick-up “Die My Love,” from Scottish/British filmmaker Lynne Ramsay, came up empty-handed. A Cannes Actress win for Jennifer Lawrence could have fueled an Oscar campaign, but that loss won’t stop Mubi from pursuing that goal. Similarly, although Oliver Hermanus’ muted American drama “History of Sound” won nothing, Focus may still pursue acting...

Given Sony Pictures' largely dismal track record with its Marvel movies, most fans didn't have particularly high expectations for Madame Web. So, when the movie debuted with 12% on Rotten Tomatoes and earned only $100.3 million at the worldwide box office, no one was shocked.

Despite boasting an impressive cast and a director with superhero experience in Sj Clarkson, little to nothing about Madame Web worked. Now, it's destined to be remembered as one of the worst superhero movies ever made.

While lead star Dakota Johnson was wifely ridiculed for her performance as the title character, Isabala Merced and Sydney Sweeney managed to emerge largely unscathed.

Talking to Empire Online, Sweeney, who played Julia Cornwall/Spider-Woman, reflected on her experience of making a superhero movie.

"It’s always fun to be able to be a part of something that’s bigger than yourself," she started. "I hadn’t done a studio film yet,...

Finally more good news for Scrubs fans. Five and a half months after the reboot of the beloved medical comedy secured series creator Bill Lawrence, the project has locked in star Zach Braff, sources tell Deadline. He will reprise his role as John “J.D.” Dorian in the Scrubs followup, which is in development at ABC from 20th Television. Reps for the network and studio declined comment.

The deal with Braff comes after months of touch-and-go negotiations that hit major hurdles over both money and Braff’s request for the series to film in Los Angeles and not Vancouver as originally planned, sources said. The impasse was so serious, there was a chance for the entire project to be, um, scrubbed, until the two sides recently came to an agreement. Because Scrubs is still in development, no filming location has been announced.

The Scrubs reboot is proving to be a...

Call it the “Anora” effect.

As the 2025 Cannes Film Festival looms, a halo of optimism hangs over the south of France just two months after Sean Baker’s indie took the Oscars by storm, winning five awards including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actress. The Neon film made its grand debut at Cannes 2024 and rode a wave of enthusiasm all the way to the Dolby Theatre. It’s merely the latest in a line of Cannes films that have found success recently at Hollywood’s most prestigious awards show.

Films like “The Substance,” “Anatomy of a Fall,” “Triangle of Sadness,” “Drive My Car” and “Parasite” all premiered at Cannes, then found themselves Oscar-nominated less than a year later. Now all eyes are on what will be the buzziest movies at this year’s fest, although hope that the next “Anora” is on tap is tempered somewhat by uncertainty about...

The Tribeca Festival is this year launching a festival within a festival, adding a Storytelling Summit in which emerging and mid-career creators can engage with entertainment industry leaders like Nia DaCosta, David Leitch, Leslye Headland and Lucy Liu.

The 11-day event, running June 5-15 at Spring Studios, will feature talks, workshops, case studies and networking events in the form of six thematic tracks.

Luminaries sessions will consist of in-depth talks with artists like DaCosta, talking about her career trajectory including Candyman and The Marvels; married producing partners Leitch and Kelly McCormick, who will discuss their advocacy for stunt design as a storytelling too and their upcoming Nobody 2 sequel and Problemista and Fantasmas‘ Julio Torres on his prolific creativity. There will also be talks with Steve Buscemi, Tribeca co-founder Jane Rosenthal and Jeremy O. Harris.

Industry Now sessions will feature guidance on producing, financing and distribution including choosing stories and...

Following the passing of Pope Francis, various cardinals are about to select a new Pope and are looking for guidance — but not from above. Instead, the cardinals are headed to the movies, specifically to watch Conclave. Released in 2024, Conclave follows the election process of a new pope and stars Ralph Fiennes, John Lithgow, Stanley Tucci, and Isabella Rossellini. The movie won the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar and has since seen a boom in popularity on streaming following the death of Pope Francis on April 21, 2025, and now it looks like the actual cardinals who will choose the next Pope are among its viewers.

According to Politico, some of the 133 high-ranking clerics set to take part in the conclave that started on Wednesday, May 7, 2025, watched the movie Conclave for guidance. Politico points out that the majority of the cardinals (about 110) who make up the conclave were appointed by the late Pope Francis...

Will Smith is one of the most recognizable names in Hollywood. From blockbuster franchises like Men in Black and Independence Day to critically acclaimed performances in Ali and The Pursuit of Happyness, Smith has proven his versatility time and time again. While his movies have collectively raked in billions, not all of his work gets the recognition it really deserves.

Among his vast filmography lies a film that didn’t receive much love when it first hit theaters. Sometimes it takes time for people to realise what a real gem is. It has since found its place in the hearts of viewers. The name of the movie is Focus.

Though it was released to mixed reviews and a modest box office performance, Focus brought something unique to the table. A crime drama with a splash of romance and humor, this 2015 film starring Will Smith and Margot Robbie is an underrated gem that deserves more appreciation.

Brett Goldstein, who is widely known for his work as Roy Kent from Apple TV+’s Ted Lasso, not only stars in the show but also co-writes it along with Jason Sudeikis and Brendan Hunt. It has been known that Goldstein initially got on board with the team of Ted Lasso as a writer, but later, when they started developing the storyline for Roy Kent, he was inclined towards playing it on-screen. To his luck, his audition was just the thing the makers had been looking for, and thus, he got the part.

The stand-up comedian-writer co-created another Apple TV+’s, one of the most beloved shows, Shrinking, alongside Jason Segel. The show has received a lot of love and support from the audience and critics for staying real with real-life problems and not going overboard when it comes to seeking professional help. The Ted Lasso actor made an appearance...

Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the landmark film, Focus Features is re-releasing Brokeback Mountain nationwide in theaters, with special showings beginning on June 22nd and 25th.

Tickets are now on sale for the theatrical event, which will be accompanied by an all-new film poster, as well as forthcoming merchandise and other connected initiatives.

Photo courtesy of Focus Features

Directed by Ang Lee and starring Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Anne Hathaway, and Michelle Williams, Brokeback Mountain grossed over $178 million at the global box office.

The sweeping Western epic about two cowboys’ secretive, lifelong bond became an instant classic, breaking cinematic and social barriers and solidifying its cast and filmmakers as among the industry’s finest. The film helped establish Focus Features as an industry leader working with visionary filmmakers to bring resonant films to wide audiences.

Photo courtesy of Focus Features

Beyond its cultural impact and box office success, Brokeback Mountain achieved extensive critical acclaim,...

The 32nd Screen Actors Guild Awards will stream live on Netflix on March 1, 2026, the Guild said as it announced key dates for the season ahead.

Submissions for nomination consideration will open on August 25, 2025, and close on November 3, 2025. Eligible performances must air or premiere between January 1, 2025, and December 31, 2025.

Nominations will be announced on January 7, 2026. The nominations voting window runs December 15, 2025, to January 4, 2026, and final voting takes place from January 14, 2026, to February 27, 2026.

Focus feature’s Conclave won the Guild’s top prize, the ensemble cast award, at last season’s ceremony, with Timothée Chalamet from Searchlight Pictures’ A Complete Unknown and Demi Moore...

Among the lineup for the Cannes Film Festival’s 78th edition are some big names from Hollywood and global cinema. We already knew that Tom Cruise will light the fuse on Paramount/Skydance’s Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning on May 14 out of competition, while there was plenty of speculation that Scarlett Johansson would have a pair of movies on the Croisette. The latter has now been confirmed with Johansson’s directorial debut Eleanor the Great set for Un Certain Regard, and her acting reteam with Wes Anderson in his latest, The Phoenician Scheme, in Competition. Also confirmed is Ari Aster’s Eddington with Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal and Emma Stone.

Many more stars are potentially in store now that the bulk of the official selection has been revealed. Not everyone is confirmed to attend the Riviera shindig, but here’s a look at some of the possibilities.

Cannes...

Focus Features chairman Peter Kujawski took to the stage in Las Vegas to talk up this year pipeline on the back of the company’s second biggest ever hit Nosferatu, and a successful awards season.

Kujawski told attendees at The Colosseum in Caesars Palace: “While I truly do believe that the specialty sector does pollinate the movies business,” he said, referencing his CinemaCon 2023 address, “it’s more important that I say movie theatres pollinate our entire global culture.”

Affirming the company’s range of films and commitment to ”the vital theatrical experience”, the executive

Kujawski showed first-looks from Wes Anderson...

Exclusive: Rodrigo Santoro (300), Leila George (Disclaimer) and Adriana Barraza (Babel) have joined Alan Ritchson and Owen Wilson in Runner, the new action-thriller from director Scott Waugh, which is now in production in Australia.

Based on a Black List script by Tommy White and Miles Hubley, Runner follows Hank Malone (Ritchson), a high-end courier faced with a harrowing, life-or-death mission: deliver an organ to a 7-year-old girl in need of an immediate transplant. The straightforward task rapidly devolves into a perilous game of cat and mouse, when the merciless leader of a notorious crime syndicate sets his sights on claiming the organ for himself.

George is set to play Kate, the heartbroken mother of the ailing girl who is willing to do anything to save her child’s life. Barraza plays Donna, a ruthless cartel boss, hell-bent on sabotaging Hank’s efforts for her own nefarious purposes. Santoro portrays Donna’s son Damian,...

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Will Smith has spoken out about what’s become of his career.

Or, to be more specific, he has Rapped about what’s become of his career.

As we’re sure you must recall, Smith slapped Chris Rock on stage at the Academy Awards in 2002… an incident that we still cannot believe actually took place.

The actor issued an apology and semi-explanation shortly afterward, but hasn’t said a lot in public since.

Will Smith poses during a photoshoot for the movie ‘Bad Boys: Ride or Die’ at Angel de la Independencia on May 31, 2024 in Mexico City, Mexico. (Photo by Hector Vivas/Getty Images)

On March 28, however, Smith released a new album titled “Based on a True Story.”

The first first track is titled “Int. Barbershop — Day,” and it opens with the phrase: Will Smith is canceled.

The single — which features Smith’s Fresh Prince collaborator DJ Jazzy Jeff...

Being partly responsible for turning George Clooney into a movie star, Steven Soderbergh knows a thing or two about spotting a hitmaker. Sure, Clooney had the looks, the charm, and a juicy part on the hit medical drama “E.R.” that gave him the opportunity to hone his craft, but in casting him to lead “Out of Sight,” and their most successful collaboration, “Ocean’s Eleven,” Soderbergh gave him a leg up few stars manage to receive today. Nowadays, it seems acting is a talent you have to be born with, and no one knows this better than recent Oscar-nominee Timothée Chalamet.

“It would appear Timothée Chalamet is a movie star,” said Soderbergh in a recent interview with Men’s Health. “Like, this guy can make movies hits, and they’re a wide range of movies. So, everybody’s chasing him. I don’t know him, but he seems to be making interesting choices.

Movie theaters haven’t exactly been bustling since the start of 2025 and the calendar year is about to turn in one of its most meager frames yet. Even with two new wide releases — Paramount’s slapstick beat-em-up “Novocaine” and Focus Features’ spy film “Black Bag” — exhibitors are in danger of a particularly beleaguered weekend, one that will likely see no feature grossing in the eight digits.

That hasn’t happened since February 2024, when Apple’s hopeful franchise starter “Argylle” crumbled in its second weekend. Whether or not any individual releases can get north of $10 million, the overall outlook remains dreary. The Feb. 7 Super Bowl weekend remains the lowest-grossing of 2025 in North America, when “Dog Man” led charts with $13 million and all releases totaled $55.8 million. This weekend seems likely to sink lower.

“Novocaine” has the edge for No. 1 for now, though “Black Bag” and last week’s “Mickey 17” aren’t far behind.

One of the most beloved adaptations of a classic Jane Austen novel is making its way back into theaters for its 20th anniversary. Focus Features announced that 2005’s period romance drama, Pride & Prejudice, will be re-released for a limited engagement beginning on April 20.

Keira Knightley was nominated for a Best Actress Oscar for her performance as Pride & Prejudice’s main protagonist, Elizabeth Bennett. In total, the film, directed by Joe Wright from a screenplay by Deborah Moggach, was nominated for four Academy Awards, including best achievement in art direction, best achievement in costume design and best original score.

Focus Features, ahead of the theatrical re-release, also dropped a special 20th anniversary Pride & Prejudice trailer. Tickets for the movie can be found on the Focus Features website.

The Soundtrack will Also Get a Special Release

The film’s milestone anniversary will also be marked with a new merchandise line.

Five years after storming the Oscars with best picture winner Parasite, Neon topped the ceremony thanks to Anora.

The indie studio run by Tom Quinn took home five statues at the 2025 Oscars for Anora (best picture, best director, best actress for Mikey Madison, best original screenplay and best editing). Anora writer-director Sean Baker himself took home four Oscars, a first, for producing, directing, writing and editing the movie.

Netflix, which came into the ceremony as the leader with 18 noms (powered by Emilia Pérez), left with just three wins: best supporting actress for Zoe Saldaña and best original song for Emilia Pérez and best documentary short for The Only Girl in the Orchestra

A24 likewise landed three wins for The Brutalist (best actor for Adrien Brody, cinematography and score).

Universal took two wins for Wicked, out of 10 noms for the film, landing statues for best costume design and production design. Warner Bros. also snagged two wins,...

At the 2025 Oscars ceremony on Sunday, Neon had the biggest haul for a movie distributor. The film Anora took home trophies for Best Picture, Best Director (Sean Baker), Best Actress (Mikey Madison), Best Original Screenplay (Baker), and Best Film Editing (Baker).

Netflix once again led all studios for Academy Awards nominations with 18, two more than the streamer had last year. A24 was next with 14 — double its total from last year — followed by Universal with 13 and Focus Features with an even dozen.

Conan O'Brien hosted the event for ABC and Hulu on March 2.

SEE2025 Oscars: The complete list of winners

The complete list of winners for each movie and studio/distributor is below.

Wins by Movie:

Anora (5)

The Brutalist (3)

Dune: Part Two (2)

Emilia Pérez (2)

Wicked (2)

Conclave (1)

Flow (1)

I'm Still Here (1)

No Other Land (1)

A Real Pain (1)

The Substance (1)

Wins* by Distributor:

Neon (5)

A24 (3)

Netflix (2)

Universal Pictures (2)

Warner Bros. (2)

Focus Features (1)

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Exclusive: The journey to bring Bob Dylan’s formative story to the screen took more than a decade. The film had a coterie of producers as it wound its way to production. Fred Berger and Alex Heineman got the PGA mark along with writer/director James Mangold. The other producers are Bob Bookman, Alan Gasmer, the film’s star Timothee Chalamet, Peter Jaysen, and Jeff Rosen. Here, Berger and Heineman explain the road to bring to screen the evolution of Dylan from the future from folk to rock icon. The Searchlight film tonight competes for eight Oscars including Best Picture.

Deadline: When Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016, he didn’t show up for the ceremony. What was the process in getting him to play ball here?

Fred Berger: Alex and I started talking about this movie in 2017 before either of our seven and a half year old kids were born.

Oscar weekend was a bust at the box office this year.

Overall domestic revenue is estimated to come in between $56 million and $57 million, the lowest by a long shot in at least a decade, according to ComScore. This excludes the year the awards show was delayed to early April because of the pandemic and as theaters were still struggling to come back online. Over Oscar weekend in 2021, combined revenue hit $57.2 million over the April 4-6 frame.

The reason for this year’s drought? A lack of new event product and the much-debatad performance of Marvel’s Captain America: Brave New World. And nearly all of the top Oscar nominees are now available in the home, or long done with their theatrical runs.

Brave New World had no trouble staying atop the chart in its third outing with $15 million for a domestic total of $163.7 million $341.8 million globally. The lingering question — can...

The entire plot of Nosferatu revolves around Bill Skarsgard's Count Orlok wanting Lily-Rose Depp's Ellen more than anything in the world and stopping at nothing to get her; however, the reasons behind his lust are not entirely spelled out.

After a successful theatrical run (the movie grossed $178 million on a $50 million budget) that lasted longer than most Focus Features titles, Nosferatu began streaming on Peacock, allowing an entirely new audience to experience the fantasy horror.

The movie is directed by Robert Eggers and follows a vampire as he sacrifices everything to reach a woman who unknowingly calls out to him (read a full plot breakdown of Nosferatu here).

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The writers behind the Oscar-nominated adapted screenplay of Focus Features’ Conclave and an episode of the FX and Hulu series Say Nothing on Saturday night at the 37th annual USC Scripter Awards.

The winners were revealed tonight during a black-tie ceremony in the Town & Gown ballroom at USC. The awards, bestowed annually by the USC Libraries, honor the writers of the year’s most accomplished film and episodic series adaptations as well as the writers of the works on which they are based.

Conclave, adapted by Peter Straughan based on the novel by Robert Harris, previously won the Golden Globe Screenplay trophy. The film has a total of eight Oscar nominations, including for star Ralph Fiennes and for Best Picture.

A political potboiler set within the Vatican, Conclave follows Cardinal Lomeli (Fiennes), the Dean of the College of Cardinals, as he oversees a secretive papal election following the sudden death of the Pope.

Sunny Hostin has been unable to catch a break lately, both on and off The View, as drama surrounds the veteran co-host.

Sunny’s surgeon husband, Manny Hostin, is embroiled in a lawsuit alleging insurance fraud, which is embarrassing for anyone.

As Monsters and Critics reported, Manny is one of almost 200 defendants in the insurance lawsuit, and Sunny is unhappy about it.

And now she is singled out by a rival talk show host who recently spoke out against The View.

Harris Faulkner, host of a Fox show, The Faulkner Focus, won against The View for views in January, and she is not holding back about her feelings.

Harris spoke out to The Daily Mail and shared some unflattering things about the ladies on The View while singling out Sunny.

Sunny called ‘dicey’ for her apologizing on The View

Harris, a name many don’t know, has a significant following on Fox News,...

The merciless axe of Netflix falls again, this time on the Yellowstone-esque series, Territory. The Australian neo-western has been cancelled after just one season (adding itself to the streamer’s ever-growing list), with the outlet C21 Media confirming the news. Unfortunately, the series will now not return for its planned second season, despite Territory Season 1 earning an impressive score of 86% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Created by Ben Davies and Timothy Lee, and starring an ensemble cast that includes Anna Torv, Michael Dorman, Robert Taylor, and Sam Corlett (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina), Territory was one of the many current attempts to match the success of Paramount’s Yellowstone, with Territory telling the tale of the world’s largest cattle station, Marianne Station, which, when left without an owner, sees the most powerful factions in the Australian outback, including miners, landowners, cowboys and gangsters, start preparing their weapons.

In a joint statement,...

It’s a quieter week on Netflix UK, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t some excellent new additions to the library. This week, Netflix’s exciting new political thriller Zero Day, starring Robert De Niro, is added, and Gladiator and The Theory of Everything return.

First of all, here’s this week’s top highlights:

Genre: Drama, ThrillerRating: TV-MARelease Date: February 20, 2025Cast: Robert De Niro, Jesse Plemons, Lizzy CaplanLanguage: EnglishWatch on Netflix

Episodes: 6

Genre: Political, Thriller | Runtime: 45 Minutes

Cast: Robert De Niro, Jesse Plemons, Lizzy Caplan, Connie Britton, Joan Allen

Robert De Niro is back to his best in Netflix’s latest political thriller, Zero Day. Not one to miss this weekend, make sure to watch an episode or two!

After a devasting cyber attack results in thousands dead, and the threat of another attack looms, former US President George Mullen is called out of retirement to lead...

“Nosferatu” (Focus) and “Sonic the Hedgehog 3” (Paramount), two of the biggest hits last Christmas, are both coming to their studios’ streaming platforms less than two months after their theatrical release. That is a radical decrease in the amount of normal time before home subscribers can see a hit film for no extra charge.

In a week that saw four different films released no earlier than January 12 make the VOD top 10 lists, Mel Gibson’s “Flight Risk” (Lionsgate) currently is the most popular. At Netflix, the Italian-set rom-com “La Dolce Villa” capitalized on Valentine’s Day to take the #1 spot.

With the absence of any same-week streaming charts for all services, IndieWire normally concentrates on top 10 charts for VOD (which usually is the first stage of home availability) and Netflix’s same-day list. But the gravity of these two announcements overshadows our normal coverage.

We surveyed the average time before...